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["Daniel Quintiliani" <danq AT runbox.com>]

I've only been involved in OpenNIC since Prism-Break (2013 according to the 
mailing list archives), but to my knowledge OpenNIC was created to allow 
democratic, non-secret decision making as opposed to ICANN, right?

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-Dan Q

On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:36:57 -0500, kevin <krattai AT gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just been thinking about a problem with another community I'm
> involved in and while working through possible solutions, I remembered
> that corporate strategies yields corporate results.
> 
> As an original group of volunteerists, it's odd to look at the way
> openNIC has progressed in some areas, especially for a group that I
> believe wanted to get away from the bureaucracy that resulted in ICANN.
> 
> I'm not opposed to voting for things as a way to maintain focus on
> certain activities that will move a community forward, but when a vote
> is about developing a bureaucratic and corporate structure, it really
> doesn't make sense for a group of decentralized volunteerists.  In
> fact, it can be highly detrimental to such a group activity.  A lot of
> some of the more current "decisions" the group has voted on and the
> direction of much of our documentation, especially as "rules" rather
> than "guidelines", I wonder what the end result of openNIC might be, in
> relation to ICANN.
> 
> Anyhow, I just wanted to put that out there and find if maybe there's
> others active in the group who are thinking like I am, or if I'm really
> just an outlier in the community.
> 
> Kevin
>